Curtain fixture



J. H. BOYE CURTA/IN FIXTURE June 25, 1940.

Filed Feb. 16, 1939 Patented June 25, 1940 UNrrED 'STATES y CURTAIN FIXTURE James H. Boye, Chicago, Ill.,l assignor to James I H. Boye Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Application Februaryrl, 1939, Serial No. 256,764

z'olaims. *(01. 248-265) This invention relates to curtain fixturesl of what are known in the trade as the hook-on type, typical examples of this type of xture being shown in my former Patents Nos. 1,814,281

and 1,814,282, both granted July 14, 1931.

My present invention has been designed more particularly for embodiment in fixtures employing one or more bowed rods, although it may also be embodied in fixtures using straight rods.

@ Some users of bowed rod xtures prefer to mount the rod horizontal, while others prefer to mount the rod in an upwardly tilted position. To meet this demand, I have heretofore designed a number of bowed rod fixtures wherein,lthrough the if use of adjustable connections between the rod ends and the rod-supporting brackets, the rod can be securely held in either horizontal or tilted position, such lixtures` forming the subjectmatters of my pending applications, Serial No. 239,615, filed November 9, 1938, now Patent 2,150,-

204 dated March 14, 1939; Serial No. 243,299, 'lled December l, 1938; Serial No. 246,056, led December 15, 1938; and Serial No. 251,110, rlled January 16, 1939.

There is at the present time a large demand.

for very cheap bowed rod curtain xtures at this type, and the main object of this invention has been to provide a very simple and inexpensive fixture, and one wherein the use of clamp screws and the like for securing the rod in its various adjusted positions is not required. p

Furthermore, in hook-on fixtures of the specific type wherein the rod is formed with registering holes in its top and bottom flanges cooperating with a hook on the bracket that includes a vertical pin that engages said holes, such as are disclosed in my two patents above identified and in my application, Serial No. 239,- 615, above noted, some difficulty is experienced bythe user in mounting the rod ends on the pins. The lower hole can be passed over the pin easily enough, but to bring the upper hole into register with the top of the pin requires Y the rod to bev held horizontal when applying it, 40 and usually considerable jockeying of the rod is necessary to fully engage the rod with the' pin. Other objects and attendant advantages of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description of an approved embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a top plan view, broken out, of my improved fixture. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary end elevation, viewed from the 1eft'of'Fig. 2,showing the rod horizontal'.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the rod in tilted position.

Fig, 5 is an enlarged horizontal section taken 5 on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a vertical section, enlarged, taken on` the line 6-6 of Fig. 3.

In the drawing I0 designates a portion of a window frame, on which the curtain fixture is 10 mounted.

Each of the rod supporting brackets, which are rights and leits, but otherwise identical, consists of an L-shaped member comprising a base II which is secured to the frame member Il) by 15,

screws I2, and a forwardly projecting flat arm I3 disposed in a vertical plane. Cut and pressed outwardly from the arm I3 are upper and lower L-shaped keeper lugs I 4 and I5 respectively. A rod engaging hook consists of a section of round 20 rod bent to Aan L form to provide a shank I6 and an upright rod engaging pin I1. The free end portion of the shank I6 is bent laterally to provide a pivot I8 that loosely ts a bearing hole I9 in the arm I3 in the rear of keeper lugs I4 and I5. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, this pivot bearing is located substantially in the horizontal plane of the lower keeper lug I5, and the inner end of the pivot I8 is swaged over the inner side of the arm I3 to lock it to the latter, as 30 f shown at I8in Fig. 1. 'I'he t of the pivot I8 inits bearing I9 is suiciently free to permit the shank I6 of the hookA to pass over the outer side of the upper keeper lug I4, so that the hook can be readily shifted between the two positions shown in Figs 3 and 4. The diameter of the round stock of the hook is slightly greater than the Width ofthe keeper lugs, and to provide a snug t of the shank in the keeper lugs, the shank is locally reduced in thickness by filing off a flattened surface 2U on the outer side of the shank, as most clearly shown in Fig. 6.

2| designates as an entirety a bowed telescopic extensible flat rod of the Well-known type which hasy hollow beads or anges 2| extending length- 45 wise of its top and bottom edges. In each end portion of said flanges are registering upper and lower holes 22 and 23 respectively that, in mounting the rod on the brackets, are passed downwardly over the pins I'I. 50

Figs. 1, 2 and 3 show the rod mounted in horizontal position, with the shank I6 of the hook supported in the lower keeper lug I5 and the pm I'I vertical. To convert the fixture from a horizontal to a tilted form it is necessary only 55 lll to slide the rod 01T the pins I1, raise the hooks out of the keeper I5 and over and into the keepers I4, and then replace the rod, as shown in Fig. 4. The reverse of these operations re stores the rod from tilted to horizontal position.

As before stated, some diculty is some times experienced in quickly threading the rod on its supporting hooks, since, unless the rod itself is held in a certain fixed position, the tips of the pins Il will strike the top flange more or less to one side of the upper holes 22. To facilitate this threading operation, I provide on the rod itself a means for guiding the pin ll into engagement with the upper hole 22; such means consisting of a pair of parallel ribs 24 (Fig. 5) that are indented on and crosswise of the inner side of the front Wall of the rod at suitable points on the ends of the latter to cooperate with the pins Il. As shown in Fig. 5, the adjacent sides 0f the two ribs merge into each other to form a transversely concave guide channel 25, the ends of which register With the holes in the rod,

so that, as the rod ends are slipped down over the pins Il, with the rod pressed lightly inwardly, the pins are guided into and through the upper holes 22 Changes in the details of structure and arrangement may be made Within the coverage of the claims, Without involving any departure from the principle and substance of the invention.

I claim:

1. A support for a curtain rod of the hookon type, comprising a bracket having a forwardly projecting arm and fixed vertically spaced keepers on the free end portion of said arm, and an angularly shiftable rod engaging hook pivoted at its rear end on said arm in rear of said keepers and adapted to be supported on and confined laterally by any of said keepers.

2. A specic embodiment of claim 1, wherein the arm is a flat metal member disposed in a vertical plane, and the keepers are L-shaped lugs cut and pressed laterally from said arm.

JAMES H. BOYE. 

